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CANDLELIGHTING

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THE JEWISH VIEW

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JUDAISM 101

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{weblog_name} - Comic, Ironic And Tragic Vatican Views
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Word that the Vatican is now charging that the U.S. and British governments suppressed information about the extent of the Holocaust is all at once comic, ironic and tragic. Recently, the Vatican’s official newspaper, “L’Osservatore Romano,” declared that Allied governments during World War II deliberately failed to act to stop the systematic murder of European Jewry despite having detailed information about it. The Vatican article also noted that the wartime Pope Pius XII worked quietly to help save Rome’s Jews during the Nazi occupation of the city. The charges against the Allies, the paper wrote, are evident when one reads the diary of then U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who was Jewish. “The incapacity, indolence and bureaucratic delays of America impeded saving thousands of Hitler’s victims,” wrote Morgenthau. For good measure, he added, “We in Washington [knew that… read more